Run of the mill zombie flick.

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2007)

British attempt at a 'scientific' zombie flick. A virus takes '10-15 seconds' to transform victims into raging biting speeded-up zombies. There's nothing original here, the plot never quite makes sense, and the actions of the standard group of survivors never come close: at one point they destroy the zombies with Molotov cocktails and a triggered explosion which takes out a city block, a bit later they have only a machete and a baseball bat and they never bother to even look for more effective weapons. But the whole thing is reasonably staged and reasonably acted. Minor spoilers follow.
This is an OK piece of mindless entertainment  apart from the treatment of the female lead, who starts the movie as a tough, resourceful survivor, efficiently killing an infected companion before he can become a threat. By the end she has unaccountably become a frightened girlie, making no resistance as she's dragged around by a nasty man, just waiting for a (previously feeble) nicer one to rescue her. There's nothing new in reducing strong female characters to props for some hero-type's emerging macho-linity, but the message here is: when society breaks down (as it so often does in so many parts of the world) forget being tough and resourceful, girls, go find a man to protect you. Outdated, hard to take and just very silly.